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RD&D requirements allow the State to 

issue RD&D permits to owners and 

operators of MSWLF units in 

accordance with state law. Subject to 

public review and comment, this notice 

approves Ohio’s RD&D permit 

requirements. 

DATES: This determination of RD&D 

program adequacy for Ohio will become 

effective August 15, 2011 unless adverse 

comments are received on or before 

August 15, 2011. If adverse comments 

are received, the U.S. EPA will review 

those comments and publish another FR 

document responding to those 

comments and either affirming or 

revising the U.S. EPA’s initial decision. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to Rebecca Geyer, Land and 

Chemicals Division (Mail Code LM–8J), 

U.S. EPA Region 5, 77 West Jackson 

Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois 60604, 

telephone: (312) 353–8314. Comments 

may also be submitted electronically to 

geyer.rebecca@epa.gov or by facsimile at 

(312) 582–5122. You may examine 

copies of Ohio’s application and 

relevant portions of Ohio’s regulations 

during normal business hours at U.S. 

EPA Region 5. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Geyer, Land and Chemicals 

Division (Mail Code LM–8J), U.S. EPA 

Region 5, 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 

Chicago, Illinois 60604, telephone: (312) 

353–8314, geyer.rebecca@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

On March 22, 2004, EPA issued a 

final rule amending the municipal solid 

waste landfill criteria in 40 CFR Part 

258 to allow for research, development 

and demonstration permits (69 FR 

13242). This rule allows for variances 

from specified criteria for a limited 

period of time, to be implemented 

through state-issued RD&D permits. 

RD&D permits are available only in 

states with approved MSWLF permit 

programs that have been modified to 

incorporate RD&D permit authority. 

While States are not required to adopt 

this new provision, those States that are 

interested in providing RD&D permits to 

owners and operators of MSWLFs must 

seek approval from EPA before issuing 

such permits. Approval procedures for 

new provisions of 40 CFR Part 258 are 

outlined in 40 CFR Part 239.12. 

Ohio’s MSWLF permit program was 

approved on June 13, 1994 (59 FR 112). 

On March 3, 2011, Ohio applied for 

approval of its RD&D permit provisions. 

Ohio submitted its amended laws under 

OAC 3745–27–80 to 3745–27–89 for 

review. 

B. Decision 

After a thorough review, U.S. EPA 

Region 5 determined that Ohio’s RD&D 

permit provisions as defined under OAC 

3745–27–80 to 3745–27–89 are adequate 

to ensure compliance with the Federal 

criteria as defined at 40 CFR Part 258.4. 

Authority: This action is issued under the 

authority of section 2002, 4005 and 4010(c) 

of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, 

42 U.S.C. 6912, 6945 and 6949(a). 

Dated: June 3, 2011. 

Susan Hedman, 

Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 5. 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2010–0464; FRL–9318–8] 

Notice of EPA Workshop on Sanitary 

Sewer Overflows and Peak Wet 

Weather Discharges 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Wastewater 

Management of the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency is holding a 

workshop to solicit the views of 

stakeholders concerning a number of 

issues. These include views on how the 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) 

regulations should apply to municipal 

sanitary sewer collection systems, 

sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs), and 

peak wet weather discharges at publicly 

owned treatment works (POTW) 

treatment plants. EPA will also seek 

views on the 2005 draft Peak Flows 

Policy. The workshop will include a 

facilitated discussion with 

representatives of organizations that 

represent POTWs, state NPDES 

permitting authorities, and non-forprofit environmental groups. EPA 

invites other interested members of the 

public to observe the workshop and to 

offer verbal comments at designated 

times during the workshop or to submit 

written comments to the Agency. 

DATES: The workshop will be held on 

July 14, from 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and on 

July 15, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. If you 

plan to participate in the workshop as 

an observer, EPA requests that you preregister by July 6, 2011 at http:// 

www.epa.gov/npdes/sso. 

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held 

at the Ronald Reagan Building and 

International Trade Center, Horizon 

Ballroom, located in Washington, DC at 

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information about this notice, 

contact Greg Schaner, EPA 

Headquarters, Office of Water, Office of 

Wastewater Management at tel.: 202– 

564–0721 or e-mail: 

schaner.greg@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Properly designed, operated, and 

maintained sanitary sewer systems are 

meant to collect and transport all of the 

sewage that flows into them to a 

publicly owned treatment works 

(POTW). However, occasional 

discharges of raw sewage from 

municipal sanitary sewers occur in 

almost every system. These types of 

discharges are called sanitary sewer 

overflows (SSOs). SSOs have a variety 

of causes, including but not limited to 

blockages, line breaks, sewer defects 

that allow storm water and groundwater 

to overload the system, lapses in sewer 

system operation and maintenance, 

power failures, inadequate sewer design 

and vandalism. EPA estimates that there 

are at least 23,000–75,000 SSOs per year 

(not including sewage backups into 

buildings). The untreated sewage from 

these overflows can contaminate our 

waters, causing serious water quality 

problems. It can also back-up into 

basements, causing property damage 

and threatening public health. 

Additionally, aging sewer line 

infrastructure in many communities 

allows rain and snow melt to enter 

sanitary sewer systems and cause excess 

flow at the treatment plant. During 

significant wet weather events it is 

possible for influent flows to exceed the 

treatment capacity of existing secondary 

treatment units. Known as ‘‘peak 

flows,’’ these wet weather flows are 

sometimes diverted around secondary 

treatment units and then either 

recombined with flows from the 

secondary treatment units or discharged 

directly into waterways from the 

treatment plant in order to prevent any 

damage to the treatment facility. 

Operators of wastewater treatment 

plants must manage these high flows to 

ensure continued operation of the 

treatment process. 

For additional background on SSOs 

and peak wet weather discharges, refer 

to the ‘‘background’’ section of EPA’s 

notice announcing the 2010 Listening 

Sessions at 75 FR 30395 (June 1, 2010) 

and to information included on EPA’s 

Web site at http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/ 

home.cfm?program_id=4. 

II. 2010 Listening Sessions 

In 2010, EPA held several listening 

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public regarding the potential 

modification to the NPDES regulations 

to address SSOs and other types of peak 

wet weather discharges. See 75 FR 

30395 (June 1, 2010). Participants in the 

sessions offered both verbal and written 

comments. The Agency received 235 

written comments to the docket. You 

can view these comments at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, under Docket ID # 

EPA–HQ–OW–2010–0464. 

III. Purpose of SSO/Peak Wet Weather 

Flow Workshop 

As a follow-up to the 2010 Listening 

Sessions, EPA will hold a 11⁄2 day 

workshop on July 14–15, 2011 in 

Washington, DC. The purpose of this 

workshop is to provide interested 

parties and other members of the public 

an opportunity to elaborate on their 

recommendations to the Agency with 

respect to actions that could be taken to 

strengthen the permitting program’s 

approach to regulating SSOs and peak 

wet weather discharges. EPA has invited 

several stakeholder groups representing 

non-governmental interests, POTWs and 

collection systems, and state permitting 

authorities to recommend members of 

their community to participate in the 

workshop as experts. In addition to 

eliciting the views of the representative 

groups, EPA will also invite comments 

during the meeting from any member of 

the public who wishes to observe and 

participate at the workshop. 

The specific issues that EPA is 

seeking feedback on have significant 

overlap with those highlighted for the 

2010 listening sessions. See 75 FR 

30399–30401 (June 1, 2010). For 

example, EPA will be interested in the 

views of the representatives and 

observers on whether and to what extent 

specific NPDES permit requirements 

should be developed to address the 

following: 

• How SSOs are reported to EPA or 

state permitting authorities and 

documented in POTW records, and how 

and when the public is notified of 

overflows; 

• What components of POTW 

programs for capacity, management, 

operations, and maintenance (CMOM) 

should be made part of standard NPDES 

permit conditions; 

• Whether to require NPDES permits 

for ‘‘municipal satellite collection 

systems’’, and what types of 

requirements should such permits 

include; and 

• Are there any circumstances under 

which an SSO may be authorized under 

an NPDES permit. 

EPA will also seek input on the 

disposition of the 2005 draft Peak Flows 

Policy (see http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/ 

wetweather.cfm) that pertains to wet 

weather diversions at POTW treatment 

plants. 

It is not EPA’s objective during the 

workshop to establish consensus among 

the parties or to obtain a collective set 

of recommendations. Rather, it is EPA’s 

intention to obtain individual input 

from interested parties so that the 

Agency can better understand the 

differences and commonalities among 

the individual recommendations. In this 

regard, EPA has determined that this 

workshop is not subject to the 

requirements of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2. 

IV. Participation in the Workshop 

Members of the public are welcome to 

participate as observers in the 

workshop. The agenda will be 

structured to invite specific verbal 

comments from observers on key issues. 

If you plan to participate as an observer 

at the workshop, in order that EPA may 

properly anticipate the correct number 

of people, EPA requests that you preregister by July 6, 2011 at http:// 

www.epa.gov/npdes/sso. 

Authority: Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 

et seq. 

Dated: June 7, 2011. 

James A. Hanlon, 

Director, Office of Wastewater Management. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

of the Chartered Science Advisory 

Board 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a 

public teleconference of the chartered 

SAB on July 5, 2011 to conduct a quality 

review of a draft SAB report, Review of 

EPA’s Draft Hydraulic Fracturing Study 

Plan (Quality Review Draft). 

DATES: The public teleconference will 

be held on July 5, 2011 from 11 a.m. to 

3 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). 

ADDRESSES: The public teleconference 

will be conducted by telephone only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing to obtain 

general information concerning the 

public teleconference may contact Dr. 

Angela Nugent, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO). Dr. Nugent may be 

contacted at the EPA Science Advisory 

Board (1400R), U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; 

or by telephone/voice mail at (202) 564– 

2188; fax at (202) 565–2098; or e-mail at 

nugent.angela@epa.gov. General 

information concerning the EPA Science 

Advisory Board can be found on the 

EPA Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ 

sab. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SAB 

was established pursuant to the 

Environmental Research, Development, 

and Demonstration Authorization Act 

(ERDAA), codified at 42 U.S.C. 4365, to 

provide independent scientific and 

technical advice to the EPA 

Administrator on the technical basis for 

Agency positions and regulations. The 

SAB is a Federal Advisory Committee 

chartered under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 

2. Pursuant to FACA and EPA policy, 

notice is hereby given that the SAB will 

hold a public teleconference to conduct 

a quality review of a draft report entitled 

Review of EPA’s Draft Hydraulic 

Fracturing Study Plan. The SAB will 

comply with the provisions of FACA 

and all appropriate SAB Staff Office 

procedural policies. 

Background: EPA’s Office of Research 

and Development (ORD) is initiating a 

study of the potential environmental 

and human health implications of 

hydraulic fracturing with special 

emphasis on the relationship between 

hydraulic fracturing and drinking water 

resources. ORD has requested that the 

SAB review its draft Study Plan. The 

SAB Hydraulic Fracturing Study Plan 

Review Panel has developed the draft 

report that will undergo quality review 

by the chartered SAB. 

Background information about the 

SAB advisory activity, including its 

meetings and teleconferences, can be 

found on the SAB Web site at http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/ 

fedrgstr_activites/ 

HFSP?OpenDocument. 

Availability of Meeting Materials: The 

agenda and other materials in support of 

the teleconference will be placed on the 

SAB Web site at http://www.epa.gov/sab 

in advance of the teleconference. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Public comment for consideration by 

EPA’s federal advisory committees and 

panels has a different purpose from 

public comment provided to EPA 

program offices. Therefore, the process 

for submitting comments to a federal 

advisory committee is different from the 

process used to submit comments to an 

EPA program office. 


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